Video library

The Oregon Forest Resources Institute produces a wide variety of educational videos covering a range of topics related to Oregon forests, forest management and forest products.

A selection of OFRI videos and educational advertising can be viewed below. These and other videos are also posted on OFRI’s YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/user/oregonforests.

Forest Fact Break: Green Building

This 90-second animated video looks at the environmental advantages of using wood building products. Carbon...

Forest Fact Break: Wood Products

This 90-second animated video looks at wood products. We use trees for all kinds of daily items. Some are pretty...

Forest Fact Break: Sustainability

This 90-second animated video looks at forest sustainability. How do we protect our forests for the future, while...

Forest Fact Break: Forest Types

This 90-second animated video looks at forest types in Oregon. It offers a look at the top five forest types in...

Forest Fact Break: Fire Safety

This 90-second animated video looks at fire safety. People cause a lot of fires in our forests. Being safe with fire...

Forest Fact Break: Ecosystems

This 90-second animated video looks at forest ecosystems. An ecosystem is made up of all the living and non-living...

Forest Fact Break: Carbon Capture

This 90-second animated video looks at carbon capture, also called carbon sequestration. Trees pull carbon out of...

Forest Fact Break: Forest Management

This two-minute animated video answers the question, "What the heck is forest management?" Oregon forests are managed...

Forest Fact Break: Water

This 90-second animated video looks at the relationship between water quality and Oregon’s forests. Healthy forest...

Forest Fact Break: Tree Biology

This two-minute animated video looks inside a tree to figure out what’s going on in there: tree biology...

Forest Fact Break: Clearcutting

This two-minute animated video explains why forests are clearcut in Oregon for ecological and economic reasons. It is...

Forest Fact Break: Reforestation

This 90-second animated video explains how reforestation is Oregon law, ensuring sustainable forests for future...

Forest Fact Break: Wildlife

This 90-second animated video explains why forest animals live where they do. It’s part of OFRI’s Forest Fact Breaks...

Forest Fact Break: Photosynthesis

This 90-second animated video explains how photosynthesis works and why our forests are such an important part of...

Forest Fact Break: Forest Fire

This 90-second animated video explains why forest fires have become so severe in the West, and how active forest...